Band 6 Specialist Neuro Occupational Therapist: Sutton H&C Community

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Carshalton; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Neuro Occupational Therapist to join the Sutton Health & Care community team. The post supports adults with neurological conditions across community settings, operating within a supportive MDT and focused on patient-centred rehabilitation.

Visits occur in patients’ homes, care homes and clinics, with some remote working and flexible part-time hours.

Qualifications

• Experience as Band 5 or 6 in community neuro therapy.
• Willingness to travel around the borough and work autonomously.
• Interest in working within a Community MDT for adults with neurological conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide rehabilitation and intervention to maximise patients' potential.
• Work within Sutton Community Neuro therapy MDT using evidence-based practice.
• Visit patients in homes, care homes, and clinics across the borough and travel as required.

Job description

Band 6 Specialist Neuro Occupational Therapist: Sutton H&C Community

Company: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

A Vacancy at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Community Neuro Occupational Therapist: Band 6, Sutton Health & Care

The community Neuro team is looking for OT's with a passion to work with adult neuro clients .

The role is an opportunity to work in a Community MDT who truly support each other & work towards our vision 'Investing in our patient community, empowering them to live well'.

We work holistically, towards patient led goals, providing rehabilitation & intervention to maximise patient's potential. We are patient centred & specialists within our field, using evidence-based practice & investing in our staff, so they have the knowledge, skills & training to do this. We provide intervention based on clinical need, utilising each other’s expertise & our rehabilitation assistants to maximise our intervention.

Visits take place in patients’ homes, care homes & clinics, so staff need to be able to travel around the borough & work autonomously. Many of the team work part time/ flexibly; there is some degree of remote working. As a team we also feel it is important that we come together regularly for clinical support/supervision, development, communication .

These roles are the perfect opportunity for current band 5 or 6's who have had who has some experience & wish to further build on skills specifically in the specialty of Community Neuro therapy.

The Sutton Community Neuro therapy & Adult Speech & Language therapy service is a Multi disciplinary team offering specialist, comprehensive assessment & intervention. We work with adults in the Sutton area of South West London who have Neurological conditions.

The service has various pathways which enable us to deliver intervention to meet our patients’ needs. Community Neuro provides intervention to Stroke survivors (including an Early Supported Discharge (ESD) response) and other complex Neuro conditions, such as PD, MS and MND.

The needs of our patients vary widely & our services offer rehabilitation, enablement & disability management interventions dependant on the patients’ needs & goals.

We offer specialised multi-disciplinary therapy assessment & intervention to patients in order to promote quality of life & independence, by preventing inappropriate hospital stays, maximising rehabilitation, recovery, and self-management

Therapists are expected to work flexibility across the pathways.

Sutton Health and Care is an innovative partnership of providers working across Sutton (GP Federation; Local Authority; Mental Health Trust and Acute Trust) to provide integrated services for the local community. As partners we have the exciting opportunity to put the shared vision for how health and care can be delivered into reality through the implementation of a service model for the provision of community services (adult and children) that truly integrates health and care, physical and mental health and primary and acute care.

We are committed to working with each other and commissioners to co-create a model which when implemented will transform the experience of the people who use services in Sutton and fit the vision of the Sutton Health and Care Plan and the national NHS Long Term Plan.

We firmly believe that the partnership will drive transformational change to the benefit of patients and the local health and care system, getting the system to deliver better person-centred outcomes and financial sustainability.

Salary: £45,953 - £54,254 Pro-rata pa inc HCAS (Outer)

Hours: Part-time

Location: Carshalton, SM5 1JF

Job type: Contract

Posting date: 26 Oct 2026

Closing date: 25 Nov 2026

This advert closes on Monday 9 Nov 2026

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